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S. SANFORD APPARATUS FOR DYEING AND SIZING. N0. ,599. Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

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UNrTn STATES PATENT OFFICE STEPHEN SANFORD, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING AND SIZING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,599, dated October 6, 1885,

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To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN SANFORD, of Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery, State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sizing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which l'orm a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The invention relates to improved apparatus in sizing-machines; and it consists in apparatus for party-coloring yarns by means of the introduction, in connection with sizingmachines, of color-pulleys in boxes containing coloring material, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section, of that part of a sizing-machine to which the improvement relates.

A represents a large iron cylinder or drum, said cylinder turning on a shaft, bearings of which shaftare in the framework F of the sizing-machine.

E represents the yarn passing through the sizing machine before it has reached the starch or sizing material which is to be applied to the yarn. The pulleys and boxes containing the color are arranged in aseries half on one side of the iron cylinder A and half on the other side. There are as many of these color pulleys as there are stripes of color desired to be stamped upon the yarn, and there is a colorbox for each color pulley.

B B are the colorpulleys on one side of the iron cylinder A, and B B are the color-pulleys on the other side of the cylinder A. I prefer to make the one series of the colorpulleys B B by cutting away a common shaft of suitable length in such a way that the projecting parts that remain shall form the series of pulleys B B and the series B B by cutting away another shaft in the same way. The portions of the two shafts not cut out act as the respective color-pulleys, and act to stamp the colors upon the yarnl However, each color-pulley may be mounted in separate bearings in the edges of its own color-box, so as to be free to revolve in its own bearings and independently of the rest of the series. These color-pulleys B B and B B are arranged as shown in Fig. 2, the pulleys B B being opposite the intervals between the pulleys B B, and the pulleys B B being opposite the intervals between the pulleys B B.

O O are boxes containing coloring material in which the pulleys B B revolve. O O are boxes containing coloring material in which the color-pulleys B B revolve. There is a separate color-box for each color-pulley, and any colors desired may be put in these color-boxes OOand G O. The color-pulleys B B and B B are suitably mounted in the frame of the machine and are free to revolve.

D and D are rollers over which the yarn E passes, as shown in Fig. 1, as it is being drawn through the sizing-machine in the usual way. The direction of the movement of the yarn is indicated by an arrow in Fig. 1. These rollers D D hold the yarn lightly against the face of the cylinder A, so as to be easily operated upon by the color-pulleys B B and B B revolving against theyarn E as the yarn passes through the sizing-machine.

The color pulleys B B and B B, as they revolve in the boxes containing the dyes, bring up each the dye out of its color-box, and fix each its dye on the yarn in a continuous stripe; or if any part of the face of the pulley has been cut away, then only so much of the yarn as comes in contact with the parts of the face of the pulley not cut away is stamped with the color. After the color has been thus applied to the yarn, the yarn passes immediately into the box containing sizing material. (Indicated in the drawings at G.) This sizing material being hot brings the color out clearly, and at the same time causes the color to penetrate the cells of the yarn, and also forms a glutinous covering on the outside of the yarn, thereby preventing the color coming off from the yarn.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with the sizingbox G of a sizing-machine, the colorpulleys B B and B B, and the color-boxes O C and G G, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with the sizing-box Gof a sizing-machine, the colorpulleys B B and B B, and the color-boxes O G and 0'0, and the yarn-conducting rollers A D D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

\Vitnesses: STEPHEN SANFORD.

JOHN SANFORD, WM. J. BENN. 

